Author: Ben Sherwood

The recent French National Assembly election results have sent shockwaves through the country as the anti-immigration National Rally party, led by Marine Le Pen, secured a significant victory with 34% of the vote in exit polls. This outcome brings the nationalist party, with a controversial history, closer to power than ever before and could potentially see Le Pen’s protege, the 28-year-old right-wing leader Jordan Bardella, becoming the prime minister after the second round of voting on July 7. If Bardella succeeds, it would mark the first far-right leadership in France since the Vichy regime during WWII, a concerning prospect for…